Picart, Bernard: Pierres Antiques gravées,

sur lesquelles les graveurs ont mis leurs noms. Dessinées & gravées en cuivre sur les originaux ou d'après les empreintes par Bernard Picart. Tirées des principaux cabinets de l'Europe, expliquées par M. Phillipe de Stosch..., Amsterdam: Bernard Picart, 1724, first edition. Half title, titles in French and Latin printed in red and black with engraved vignette, text in French and Latin, 70 full-page engraved plates by Picart, including the plate of Hercules and Iole, (frequently suppressed on the grounds of obscenity). Folio, 39x26 cm. Cont. leather backed boards, with the Armorial bookplate of "Thomas Weld-Blundell" to front pastedown. Covers a little rubbed, Some of the plates with ink notes in the margin.

Provenance:

From the library of Michael Kuczynski